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- Operation_Compass abstract "Operation Compass was the first large Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) during World War II. British and other Commonwealth forces attacked Italian forces in western Egypt and Cyrenaica, the eastern province of Libya, from December 1940 to February 1941, with great success. The Western Desert Force (Lieutenant-General Richard O'Connor) with about 30,000 men, advanced from Mersa Matruh in Egypt on a five-day raid against the Italian positions of the 10th Army (Marshal Rodolfo Graziani), which had about 150,000 men in fortified posts around Sidi Barrani and in Cyrenaica.The 10th Army was swiftly defeated and the British prolonged the operation, to pursue the remnants of the 10th Army to Beda Fomm and El Agheila on the Gulf of Sirte. The British took 138,000 Italian and Libyan prisoners, hundreds of tanks and over 1,000 guns and aircraft for a loss of 1,900 men killed and wounded, about 10 percent of their infantry. The British were unable to continue beyond El Agheila, due to broken down and worn out vehicles and the diversion, beginning in March 1941, of the best-equipped units to the Greek Campaign in Operation Lustre.".
- Operation_Compass causalties "1,373 wounded".
- Operation_Compass causalties "26 aircraft".
- Operation_Compass causalties "500 killed".
- Operation_Compass causalties "55 missing".
- Operation_Compass combatant "British India".
- Operation_Compass combatant "Italy".
- Operation_Compass commander Annibale_Bergonzoli.
- Operation_Compass commander Archibald_Wavell,_1st_Earl_Wavell.
- Operation_Compass commander Giuseppe_Tellera.
- Operation_Compass commander Henry_Maitland_Wilson.
- Operation_Compass commander Italo_Gariboldi.
- Operation_Compass commander Iven_Mackay.
- Operation_Compass commander Leslie_Morshead.
- Operation_Compass commander Mario_Berti.
- Operation_Compass commander Pietro_Maletti.
- Operation_Compass commander Richard_OConnor.
- Operation_Compass commander Rodolfo_Graziani.
- Operation_Compass commander Ronald_Scobie.
- Operation_Compass date "1940-12-09".
- Operation_Compass isPartOfMilitaryConflict Western_Desert_Campaign.
- Operation_Compass place Italian_Libya.
- Operation_Compass place Kingdom_of_Egypt.
- Operation_Compass place Sidi_Barrani.
- Operation_Compass result "Alliedvictory".
- Operation_Compass strength "1,600 guns".
- Operation_Compass strength "120 guns".
- Operation_Compass strength "142 aircraft".
- Operation_Compass strength "150,000 soldiers".
- Operation_Compass strength "275 tanks".
- Operation_Compass strength "331 aircraft".
- Operation_Compass strength "36,000 soldiers".
- Operation_Compass strength "600 tankettes and tanks".
- Operation_Compass thumbnail The_British_Army_in_North_Africa_1940_E443.2.jpg?width=300.
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- Operation_Compass wikiPageWikiLink Capture_of_Kufra.
- Operation_Compass wikiPageWikiLink Category:1940_in_Egypt.
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